Home Staff Members Vision O & M Resources
The teachers in our program have compiled a list of resources that have been helpful to other teachers, therapists, and parents who work with or have a child with a vision impairment.
Audio and Digital Book Sources
Schools for the Visually Impaired in the US
Support/Informational Organizations
Assessment of Developmental Skills for Young Multihandicapped Sensory Impaired Children (SKI-Hi)
Assessment of Ongoing Evaluation Independent Living Curriculum (TSBVI)
Brigance (Pre-K)
Every Move Counts
INSITE Developmental Checklist
ISAVE
Oregon
Teller Acuity Cards - http://www.eyes.arizona.edu/Research/VisualDevelopment/IVLab/tellers.html
Audio and Digital Book Sources
AudioForBooks - www.audioforbooks.com
Book Share – www.bookshare.org
Illinois Kids Zone – www.ilkidszone.info features information about the talking book program especially for young readers including booklists, activities, summer reading club announcements, news about special projects and programs and information for teachers
Local libraries
National Library Service/Voices of Vision - 630.208.0398 - www.loc.gov/nls/
OPAL: Online Programming for All Libraries http://www.opal-online.com a collaborative effort by libraries of all types to provide cooperative web-based programming and training for library users
Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) – www.rfbd.org (Provides books on tape and CD)
Books - www.braille.org/braillebooks/bytitle.html (high school)
Downloadable Braille Materials - www.tsbvi.edu/braille/index.htm
National Braille Press – www.nbp.org
Resources for obtaining braille materials - www.everythingbraille.com
Seedlings – www.seedlings.org
Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired - http://www.tsbvi.edu/braille/index.htm
Web-Braille - www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/webbraille.html an internet, web-based service that provides, in electronic format, many braille books and other braille materials
Your name in braille - http://www.afb.org/braillebug/thenamegame.asp
Blind Children's Resource Center - www.blindchildren.org
Curricula - http://www.tsbvi.edu/publications/index.htm
Early Childhood Curricula and Resources - http://www.tsbvi.edu/bib/early.htm
Early Childhood and Visual Impairment - http://www.tsbvi.edu/recc/ec.htm
PreBraille and Literacy - http://www.morgan.k12.il.us/isd/hvc/resources/2006_Spring.pdf
The Core Curriculum for Blind and Visually Impaired Students - http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/corecurric.htm
The Expanded Core Curriculum for Blind and Visually Impaired Students - http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/corecurric.htm#Expanded
The Expanded Core Curriculum: Finding the Time - http://www.tsbvi.edu/agenda/core-ppt.htm
VI Goals and Objectives (Expanded Core Curriculum) - http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/objectives/index.htm
VI & Multiple Impairments - http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/vmi/index.htm
Huge Print Press – www.hugeprint.com (source for large print books)
National Organizations
American Blind Skiing Foundation
American Council of the Blind
American Foundation for the Blind
The American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
Blind Children's Center
The Lighthouse National Center for Vision and Child Development
National Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired
National Braille Press
The National Federation of the Blind
National Federation of the Blind Parents and Blind Children
The National Organization for Albinism and Hyperpigmentation (NOAH)
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
Blind Children's Resource Center - www.blindchildren.org
Blind Children's Resource Center - www.blindchildren.org
Early Childhood Family Resources (scroll down to Family Resources) - http://www.tsbvi.edu/recc/ec.htm
Foundation Fighting Blindness - www.blindness.org (includes message boards and chat rooms for kids, parents, and teens)
Hearing and Vision Connections Newsletter - provides families with children with visually impaired with stories of other families, ways to connect with other families/parents, provides lists of current resources, training offerings, etc. http://www.morgan.k12.il.us/isd/hvc/resources/newsletters.aspx
Toys for Children with Special Needs - http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1045826
American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults - www.actionfund.org
American Council for the Blind - www.acb.org
American Federation for the Blind – www.afb.org
American Foundation for the Blind - www.afb.org
Association of Blind Citizens - www.blindcitizens.org
Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) - www.aerbvi.org
Chicago Lighthouse Scholarships
Guild for the Blind – http://www.guildfortheblind.org
HEATH Resource Center - www.heath.gwu.edu
Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic – www.rfbd.org
The Guild Scholar Program - www.jgb.org/guildscholar.asp
Schools for the Visually Impaired in the US
National Center for Blind Youth in Science - http://www.blindscience.org/ncbys/Default.asp
Support/Informational Organizations
American Foundation for the Blind – www.afb.org (Braille Bug, Career Connect, Access World, information about ocular conditions, much more)
Blind Children's Resource Center - www.blindchildren.org
The Deicke Center – www.deicke.org
Foundation Fighting Blindness - www.blindness.org (includes message boards and chat rooms for kids, parents, and teens)
Guild for the Blind – www.guildfortheblind
Hadley School – www.Hadley-school.org
Links for Parents and Families - http://www.tsbvi.edu/othersites.htm#Parents
National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments – www.spedex.com/napvi
National Federation of the Blind – www.nfb.org
Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired - http://www.tsbvi.edu/othersites.htm#Organizations
Ai Squared – www.aisquared.com
Free, downloadable toolbar for use with Internet Explorer web browsers - www.big.com/toolbar
Freedom Scientific – www.freedomscientific.com
Optelec – www.optelec.com
Overview of technology for the visually impaired - http://www.tsbvi.edu/technology/index.htm
Pulse Data – www.pulsedata.com
Skills Students Need to Operate Specific Technology Equipment http://www.tsbvi.edu/technology/skills.htm
Student's Computer Abilities - http://www.tsbvi.edu/technology/computer-abilities.htm (suggests abilities or skills that students should be working on at various grade levels)
Technology Assessments - http://www.tsbvi.edu/technology/tech-assess.htm
JAN – http://jan.wvu.edu/media/sight.html (worksite accommodation ideas for individuals with visual impairments)